Monte Carlo event generators for high energy particle physics event simulation
Abstract
Monte Carlo event generators (MCEGs) are the indispensable workhorses of particle physics, bridging the gap between theoretical ideas and first-principles calculations on the one hand, and the complex detector signatures and data of the experimental community on the other hand. All collider physics experiments are dependent on simulated events by MCEG codes such as Herwig, Pythia, Sherpa, POWHEG, and MG5_aMC@NLO to design and tune their detectors and analysis strategies. The development of MCEGs is overwhelmingly driven by a vibrant community of academics at European Universities, who also train the next generations of particle phenomenologists. The new challenges posed by possible future collider-based experiments and the fact that the first analyses at Run II of the LHC are now frequently limited by theory uncertainties urge the community to invest into further theoretical and technical improvements of these essential tools. In this short contribution to the European Strategy Update, we briefly review the state of the art, and the further developments that will be needed to meet the challenges of the next generation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1902.01674,
title = {Monte Carlo event generators for high energy particle physics event simulation},
author = {Andy Buckley and Frank Krauss and Simon Plätzer and Michael Seymour and Simone Alioli and Jeppe Andersen and Johannes Bellm and Jon Butterworth and Mrinal Dasgupta and Claude Duhr and Stefano Frixione and Stefan Gieseke and Keith Hamilton and Gavin Hesketh and Stefan Hoeche and Hannes Jung and Wolfgang Kilian and Leif Lönnblad and Fabio Maltoni and Michelangelo Mangano and Stephen Mrenna and Zoltán Nagy and Paolo Nason and Emily Nurse and Thorsten Ohl and Carlo Oleari and Andreas Papaefstathiou and Tilman Plehn and Stefan Prestel and Emanuele Ré and Juergen Reuter and Peter Richardson and Gavin Salam and Marek Schoenherr and Steffen Schumann and Frank Siegert and Andrzej Siódmok and Malin Sjödahl and Torbjörn Sjöstrand and Peter Skands and Davison Soper and Gregory Soyez and Bryan Webber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.01674},
year = {2019}
}
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Monte Carlo Community input to European Strategy Update